Hansard

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

(2): ( n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; - so called from the name of the publishers.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

Record of the proceedings and debates in the British Parliament, published by the printers Hansard, the founder of the firm being Luke Hansard, a printer of Norwich, who came to London in 1770 as a compositor, and succeeded as proprietor of the business in which he was a workman; d . 1828.

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